

indropogon.] olxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 171 



Munroi 



lAar.rf/om.); tall, slender, leaves very narrow, spikes in a small open 

 flUDsimple panicle terminating solitary capillary sbeathcd peduncles. 

 Fata and pedicels clavate shortly silkily ciliate, sessile spikelets lanceolate, 



Ln ^u™*^^*^ ^^^^^y hollowed between the thickened keels, IV very 

 narrow bisetose. 



' sS ?™^^^o»«. alfc- 3500 ft., ClarJce. 



X«!i« 6-10 h iP^'"^°S^y branched upwards, slightlj compressed, nodes glabroas. 

 Wjtli -ti ^^ ^^'' ^'^^^^^ coriaceous, smootb, glabrous, nerves close-set, glaucous 

 Seoifc 1 91 •^'''""'°™*' ""'^"'^ • ^^>^^^^' tP^ete, smooth keeled ; ligule rather long, 

 eflwirr " T'' ^^^^' *^^°^*'^' terete, acuminate. Panicle l-i^t '«•. as broad as long, 

 •olitirv o?2 / *P'''^'''^'°e branches. Spikes 4-8, i-f in. long, very shortly stipitate, 

 glabroas ■■ ,^' divaricate or drooping, peduncle and pedi<els of spikes smooth, 

 tips- lnw«f'° • ^"^ PeJicels of upper spikelets with irregularly toothed cupular 

 jia'lonri f ^- °^ 'P'^^elets sometimes imperfect or male. Spikelets 4-6 pairs, 

 ^W sh'' • '"'^'■"^**'"e ; sessile, callus shortly softly bearded ; gl. I coriaceous, 

 Taoishiti^ h"i"^^' ™'*''g''is incurved, keels minutely scaberulous, nerves 0, or one 

 MWdle.'nrr, •*''*' middle; II acuminate, 3-nerved, keel ciliolate above the 

 •obulate awn 1 . °^' o'^^e-oblong, 2-nerved, glabrous; IV as long as III, lobes 

 ?'• 1 linear ni I '^■' *^*P^^1"0' J palea minute, truncate. Pedicelled spikelets male, 

 ^11 as inTh! .^' convex, subacute, 7-9-nerved ; III acuminate, 3-nerved, glabrous; 

 fteTiabit of f r"i " spikt^lets ; IV lanceolate.— The figure in Journ. Linn. Soc. gives 

 ^^n, in .V ^.' ^^^ ^^"^ description and analysis are very wrong. The former 

 * «MW ^°8 ^ndrop. No. 4, Herb. Ind. or Hf. & T. under A. Munroi, it is 





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ri V 



»iti aifnv"7"/^^.^^^°^«i«' ^»-iw- -^i^'fee* 2 or more fascicled or panicled, 

 ^"wr, fl Jt^ ?'' ^^^'^ts ; joints and pedicels of upper spikelets narro^v, 

 »'<Jes aW ff ' ^'^^"y channelled and tranBlncent between the thickened 

 ^'"'^iculari, ^°'nT'^^ ^^»«' terete and opaque in 21. ^. conmnens'is, 17. 

 •^^fsally ;!!; ^^^^ 28. t;en«.7«*, tips simply truncate. Sessile spikelets 

 ^s : III U ^- '''^'^ ' <=a^^"« short ; gl. I acutely 2-keeled ; II keeled, awn - 

 i^^atedand 9 + ^:l®P?^^^*« 5 IV an awn with the base acute or very rarely 



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^ v,^.^^..,^^ jpikeCets usua 



narrower, many-nerved, and male. 



/\Spikes with many pairs of spikelets. 



Pedicels 



f '^«H S tv "i^P^"' ^P^elets and joints of rachis slender, strongly com- 

 ■j. g ., ^^^^*^°e<l margins and translucent centre. 



^^«oft£fF*^*® ^'^ fascicled, not panicled, lower longer than the 

 I g^ muorescence. (See also 24. A. intermedius.) 



(-^« ozj ig i °f ^^'sile spikelets more or less villous lelow the middle. 



^^' A. pertusus.) 



'^««b8 rr>^!*'^®?*^m, Lhin. Sp. PL 1047 ; leaves narrowly linear, 



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^pitted 5-7 ;' ^'^1^^ ^l^^J-tly bearded, gl. I oblong mmute y trnncate 



'? ^'Ki'ilv oS'?'^ T'^ ^^ less appreiedly hairy below the middle, 



^.^^c/i/ t'^l'; J^nnth Enuvi. PI. i. 499; Most ^■— ^'-'" " •^- 



B.»;r^i.,-0"</ue 



■m. t. 54 ; Nees Gen. FL Germ. M' 

 Hack. Monvor. Androv. 474; AUch 



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n ^^^- n. Avf j"''- ^- ^' I^d- ■■^^. Fodd. Grass. N. M^^'}' %' 



^'^:i.4r^^'«^- T"- S3l. A. angustifolius, Sibih. & Sm.Prodr.jL 



■ -<^;.A. annulatns, F. Schmih FL Cap. Vcrd. 167. A. radicans. 



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